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TO ONE DEAD by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

Poem Explanation

First Line: A BLACKBIRD SINGING
Last Line: AND THE SORROW FOR ME.
Subject(s): BLACKBIRDS; DEATH; FUNERALS; GRIEF; DEAD, THE; BURIALS; SORROW; SADNESS;
A BLACKBIRD singing
On a moss upholstered stone,
Bluebells swinging,
Shadows wildly blown,
A song in the wood,
A ship on the sea.
The song was for you
And the ship was for me.

A blackbird singing
I hear in my troubled mind,
Bluebells swinging
I see in a distant wind.
But sorrow and silence
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
And the sorrow for me.



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